5 greatest brawlers of all time

Benn deserves a mention.

 

Some people acting like being labeled a "brawler" is like degrading a boxer. Thats not true. The "brawler" style is a style all of its own and there are skilled ATG brawlers like Hagler and JCC. Others are super crude like Ward.


Prime Tyson fought as a brawler-stalker and he was highly skilled.


You can be super skilled yet fight as a brawler. The two terms arent mutually exclusive.


The best example of a good brawler beating a good boxer puncher imho is Hagler-Hearns.

 

That was one of the only fights in which Hagler fought like a brawler though.

That was a boxer-puncher switching to a brawler for that particular night. One of the best "out of character" performances ever.

 

What's a better myth:

"Hagler was a brawler" or *Insert HBO Legendary Night myth*?

 

Brawlers who have both speed and power are Tyson and Pacquiao. And I agree that the term brawler can be described by the situation too. Like Hearns v.s. Hagler as someone gave it above as an example.

 

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Rocky Graziano

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Roberto Duran
Carmen Basilio
Rocky Marciano
Arturo Gatti
Julio Cesar Chavez

 

Armstrong ? This is only something i heard.

 

Marquez & Vasquez

 

I can't name the top 5, but when I think of the quintessential brawlers, I think of Jack Dempsey, Arturo Gatti (post-Patterson II), Jeff Fenech, Little Red Lopez, Rocky Graziano and Jake LaMotta. Maybe Frazier as well.

I don't tend to draw much of a line between a brawler and a swarmer though. I think some would probably describe a few of those guys as more of a swarmer.

 

jack dempsey
frazier
gatti
corrales
graziano
not a top jus a shout